[Mono-list] Does ShadowCopy Work ?

[Gonzalo Paniagua Javier]

El vie, 05-09-2003 a las 16:33, Piyush Garyali escribió:
> Hello Everybody,
> 
> I am trying to use ShadowCopy to update an Assembly on the fly. 
> The code when run on Windows-MSCLR lets me overwrite the assembly 
> while the Application is running  but on Windows-Cygwin-Mono it 
> does not let me overwrite the file. Does that mean that mono does 
> not support ShadowCopy?
> 
> On Linux, however,  I have found that once the Application is 
> started, one can go ahead and delete all the files being used? I 
> am not sure how this is possible, but it makes it very difficult 
> for me to come to a conclusion that ShadowCopy worked on Linux.

There's no support for ShadowCopyFiles yet. On linux, you can remove the
files because we don't lock the assemblies (as it's done on windows).

-Gonzalo